Today I'm happy about......

[Hoboh]

nowhere does God teach or speak to Adam and Eve about good and evil - or morality - he merely punishes them quite severely for attaining that knowledge against his will.

As you wish. He told them off and punished them severely but didn't speak about it? That's pretty clever. I didn't at any point say he taught or gave lessons about anything. The point was simply to illustrate the existence of the difference in the very earliest mention known to man of right and wrong, and that was in religion. I really have nothing more to add.

Not being funny here Tango, but if the Angel of death was good enough for God then why are we overthrowing Sadam and his types for following Gods ways?
The more you look at what God has actually done, you could almost equate him sending his son in the context of a modern day suicide bomber, the easier it is to understand why there are so many morons about and not enough bullets!

[thebish]

riding home from a hospital visit today - down a gloriously empty stretch of the A380 - as I turned onto it, a large group of Harleys were also coming down the slip road - there must have been 30 bikes - all chrome and black leather and tassles and the throbbing gutteral sound like that of an amplified volcano...

as we pulled onto the duel carriageway, the backrider spotted my collar (useful to wear to get into hospitals outside visiting times!) and gave me a thumbs-up and beckoned me into the group so that I was riding in the middle of a huddle of harleys!

swept along in an orgy of leather and chrome and kick-ass exhaust throb on my (comparatively little and quiet) 500cc street bike was like being a cygnet mothered across a lake by a posse of leather-clad swans!

after 15 or so miles I was relieved when they let me off at the Teignmouth turn!

mid-life-crisistastic!

[Il Pirate]

swept along in an orgy of leather and chrome and kick-ass exhaust throb



ooooooooooooooo minister.................

[thebish]

swept along in an orgy of leather and chrome and kick-ass exhaust throb



ooooooooooooooo minister.................

asdmit it - you're mildly excited!

[thebish]

odd thing to be happy about, maybe...

off on holiday tomorrow - caravan in lake district (a static one - not one of those pull-along-jobs)

but - it's not that - it's the day before setting off on holiday ritual - I find it weirdly satisfying - maybe it is a ritual that helps me psychologically switch off from work and on to holiday..

anyway..

1) open car bonnet and fill up coolant, oil and windscreen washer
(needed a shit-load of oil which is a bit worrying!)

2) drive to garage - check tyre pressures for loaded vehicle (i never revert to unloaded vehicle afterwards!)
3) drive in car wash (cos a car travels more economically if it is clean... errr.. not sure why i do that - part of the ritual!)
4) attach trailer and fiddle with the electric coupling so that both right and left indicators work - or settle for one of them!
4.1) realise that the trailer spare wheel is still totally flat and resolve not to let the missus notice - hide it in the boot!

5) this year I added - update satnav maps - as i haven't done that for 5 years and it doesn't recognise most of the middle of Newton Abbot!

this is the only time in the year when i check the oil or coolant or tyre pressures... I know I SHOULD... but!

[TANGODANCER]

Thought a laugh in order to cheer folk up, so here you go. Taken at Bolton Market (1930-40 at a guess). Not quite you high street stylist.

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[Bruce Rioja]

this is the only time in the year when i check the oil or coolant or tyre pressures... I know I SHOULD... but!

I have absolutely no idea how someone goes about checking coolant. I only put air in my tyres if they look a bit flat, and then I put sufficient in that they don't look a bit flat anymore.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

this is the only time in the year when i check the oil or coolant or tyre pressures... I know I SHOULD... but!

I have absolutely no idea how someone goes about checking coolant. I only put air in my tyres if they look a bit flat, and then I put sufficient in that they don't look a bit flat anymore.

Do you pay for your own petrol? If so, I'd make sure the pressure is correct

[Lord Kangana]

this is the only time in the year when i check the oil or coolant or tyre pressures... I know I SHOULD... but!

I have absolutely no idea how someone goes about checking coolant. I only put air in my tyres if they look a bit flat, and then I put sufficient in that they don't look a bit flat anymore.

Its good not to feel alone. I'm pretty hopeless, and if I'm honest pretty disinterested, when it comes to cars or vehicles in general.

Many's the time when my dad (old-fashioned, spanner in hand, mechanically minded) will say something like "I noticed when you drove up that there was a squeak, which is probably your underhead backward inverted widget jammer. You should check that out." I just give it this " ". And say "ok", and just carry on driving til my next service.

[Gary the Enfield]

this is the only time in the year when i check the oil or coolant or tyre pressures... I know I SHOULD... but!

I have absolutely no idea how someone goes about checking coolant. I only put air in my tyres if they look a bit flat, and then I put sufficient in that they don't look a bit flat anymore.

Its good not to feel alone. I'm pretty hopeless, and if I'm honest pretty disinterested, when it comes to cars or vehicles in general.

Many's the time when my dad (old-fashioned, spanner in hand, mechanically minded) will say something like "I noticed when you drove up that there was a squeak, which is probably your underhead backward inverted widget jammer. You should check that out." I just give it this " ". And say "ok", and just carry on driving til my next service.

Me too. Dad never learned to drive and my Mum only when she was in her mid forties. I don't need to know what goes on under the bonnet as my company car is services every 12,000 miles and my wife drives about 3,000 miles a year in her car so it's service every 12 months and barely needs it.

A means of getting from A to B, c'est ca!

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

this is the only time in the year when i check the oil or coolant or tyre pressures... I know I SHOULD... but!

I have absolutely no idea how someone goes about checking coolant. I only put air in my tyres if they look a bit flat, and then I put sufficient in that they don't look a bit flat anymore.

Its good not to feel alone. I'm pretty hopeless, and if I'm honest pretty disinterested, when it comes to cars or vehicles in general.

Many's the time when my dad (old-fashioned, spanner in hand, mechanically minded) will say something like "I noticed when you drove up that there was a squeak, which is probably your underhead backward inverted widget jammer. You should check that out." I just give it this " ". And say "ok", and just carry on driving til my next service.

Me too. Dad never learned to drive and my Mum only when she was in her mid forties. I don't need to know what goes on under the bonnet as my company car is services every 12,000 miles and my wife drives about 3,000 miles a year in her car so it's service every 12 months and barely needs it.

A means of getting from A to B, c'est ca!

Tyre pressure is kinda important though, both to your wallet, but also safety...

[Bruce Rioja]

I don't pay for any of it, AT (except for the exorbitant taxes I pay on it all).

I also have to further admit that if I ever need to attach a plug to anything then I have to open up another plug to check on what goes where.

[TANGODANCER]

Its good not to feel alone. I'm pretty hopeless, and if I'm honest pretty disinterested, when it comes to cars or vehicles in general.
Many's the time when my dad (old-fashioned, spanner in hand, mechanically minded) will say something like "I noticed when you drove up that there was a squeak, which is probably your underhead backward inverted widget jammer. You should check that out." I just give it this " ". And say "ok", and just carry on driving til my next service.

There's was no finer feeling than ducking under the bonnet of a car on a windy morning when it was pxssing down, taking your spark plugs out with a spanner, wire brushing em clean and setting the gaps to a feeler gauge. All just to get the car to start. Oh, don't forget the choke being at the right pull-out setting to start it, and don't forget to shove it back in when the engine's warmed up. If the battery was a bit dodgy that had to be on charge overnight and scuffled about with too. Ah, the joys of motoring in the fifties and sixties (and seventies).

Best were diesels, on snow and icy mornings. Oh, the sheer ecstacy of somebody being around to hold a lit newspaper near the air intake and squirt WD40 up it whilst you flattened the battery trying to get a response. Wonderful....

[Montreal Wanderer]

Tyre pressure is fairly easy - do it cold and the correct pressure is usually written on the driver's side door. Fuel levels (oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, etc.) are also fairly easy. I gave up on engines, however, once they became computerized and I was never quite at home with fuel injection. Basically the only maintenance required for the modern car in our climate is an oil change and tyre change twice a year which is a lot easier than the old days.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I don't pay for any of it, AT (except for the exorbitant taxes I pay on it all).

I also have to further admit that if I ever need to attach a plug to anything then I have to open up another plug to check on what goes where.

Not so bad then - it does affect MPG though. For safety sake it's good to keep a check on them.

As for plugs, I can never remember either!

[Hoboh]

For goodness sake I despair at a few of you, have an engine lock up at motorway speeds or a front tyre go it ain't only your lives in jepordy!
Takes 2 mins to learn and a couple of mins to put into practise, if not everyday once a week.
Could you live with the possible results of your incompetence?

[bwfcdan94]

You could just get the train?

[TANGODANCER]

You could just get the train?

Folk are discussing vehicle maintenance Dan, not the Titfield Thunderbolt.

[bobo the clown]

Using public transport for my typical journeys would increase the time taken 4, maybe 5 fold. I despair at the "use public transport" tossers. It may work for some but not too many unless in a major city.

[bwfcdan94]

I have spent my whole life living in small towns (Horwich and Wokingham) and can confirm without doubt it has saved me thousands of pounds and probably a decent amount of time. For most catching the train would save them 100s of pounds a year and that's not considering the fact that you have to buy the car in the first place, something quite a few can't afford.